Skype linux no sound

Updated: December 1, 2014

The problem you are facing is as follows. You are using Skype on Linux. Until recently, everything has been working fine, and you had audio and video, without any problems. Then, suddenly, following an upgrade to Skype 4.3, you no longer get any sound.

This little tutorial will help you understand the scope of the problem and how to fix it. Of course, your issue might be completely unrelated, but I believe this guide will give you some really decent pointers and lead you toward a resolution. Please follow me.

The problem

Anyhow, you have Skype running, but there’s no sound, not even the test call. At this point, you will be inclined to hit the search engines and start checking random forum posts and other articles, all of which will suggest ever so slightly different workaround, and which you will be applying with an increasing degree of frustration.

My suggestion is to start slowly and then expand. First, open the Skype options. Then, under Sound Devices, check how the Microphone, Speakers and Ringing are configured. What do you see in the drop down menu? If you see Virtual Device , then you have a problem. But the question is why? It used to work before.

The answer is, in version 4.3, Skype dropped support for ALSA, so if your distro is using ALSA, you no longer have sound support. You will have to switch to a different sound framework, like PulseAudio. Furthermore, Skype is a 32-bit application, and if you are running a 64-bit distro, then you might be missing some of the core libraries required to get the program working. You can always check that using the ldd command, as outline in my hacking tutorials. More links further below.

The solution

In my case, I encountered the issue on Linux Mint 17 64-bit. Indeed, the symptoms are as above. Fortunately, the fix is rather simple. You will have to install a single missing 32-bit shared library, which is not included in the dependencies.

sudo apt-get install libpulse0:i386

Once you install this package, restart Skype. Now, under the sound options, you will see PulseAudio (local), which is how it should be, and you will have your sound back. This means you need not hack your system, do any command line tweaks or install a whole bunch of tools and frontends for managing your sound. Remember, everything used to work, so the change is minimal.

You might also be lucky and not be having this problem. For example. Ubuntu escapes this issue. But please be aware of the small differences and nuances between distributions, so that you do not end up chasing ghosts. And there you are.

Conclusion

There we go, a simple and quick tutorial. But there’s more to it than just installing a missing library. I want you to be able to think and understand your problems to the core, so that you can drive toward an efficient solution. In this case, an application changed and it no longer works. So what could have gone wrong?

The first piece is to figure out how sound is configured in the program. Once you realize the problem is in that area, the solution is much easier to find. Then, 32-bit software, 64-bit system, it’s a big clue. And so we have our sound back. I hope you liked it.

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No sound on Skype in 18.04. Perfect before update

No sound after updating to Ubuntu18.04. Skype was good before.

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This happened to me today. After trying the solutions shown nothing was solved.

After you run the audio test with Skype Tools > Config Audio and Video (in the section Speakers).

Open «pavucontrol» and you will be able to see that Skype is trying to use a different audio output (in my case was HDMI) I changed that and Skype audio worked again.

Try uninstalling Skype and re-installing it not from Ubuntu Software. Go directly to Skype official website https://www.skype.com/es/get-skype/ and downlod the .deb file. Once you have this file on your computer, open it with the «Software installation» option, by right-clicking on the icon. Install Skype from there. Once your installation is completed, go to the terminal and type:

Then you’ll be able to use Skype normally.

This installation does not create an icon for you. So you have to create it.

I am having the same issue, probabaly because Skype is trying to use ALSA and ubuntu is using pulseaudio.

To clarify, there is sound (firefox, youtube, spotify, etc.). It only affects Skype.

You can try to resolve it, but I cannot guarantee anything.

One way is forcing ALSA to reload:

sudo alsa force-reload

or just reinstall everything:

sudo apt-get remove —purge alsa-base pulseaudio sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio sudo alsa force-reload

But I did not do any of those (I just hypothesize that these might help), I went for a Skype Web interface. It works perfectly in Google Chrome, so I suggest you give that a try. Unfortunately, it only works in Google Chrome, and no other web browser.

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No sound on Skype

I use Skype for Ubuntu , but there is a problem: I cannot send and receive sound.

When I open the Skype’s options window in the Sound Devices it says that in all (microphone, speakers and ringing) I use a virtual device . I think this is where the problem is, so, could you please help me?

Also, I do not use the original Ubuntu, I use Lubuntu.

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Skype 4.3 needs PulseAudio, so I recommend you to install Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) from the Lubuntu Software Center. or try:

Then it will be opened if you make a right click on the volume icon and choose volume control settings. It has a tab called recording where Skype will be shown if «Show Applications» is chosen while you are making a call, for instance a test call. It ought to show your microphone is working.

More instructions are described in this support webpage of Skype for Linux.

For all others who stumble upon this post looking for a solution to this problem and aren’t very Linux/Tech savy just like me, this was my solution and I’ll try to explain it as simple as possible.

I run Lubuntu 12.04, and I had the same problem. As the others mentioned above, Skype 4.3 no longer supports the ALSA sound driver (Too bad! I really hope they bring support back for ALSA! I personally like ALSA quite a bit better than PulseAudio.) and now solely relies upon PulseAudio as it’s audio driver. As far as I’m aware Lubuntu (at least Lubuntu 12.04) doesn’t come with PulseAudio, so you’ll need to install that yourself. I used this code to do so:

Copy that into the LXTerminal (located in the «start» menu — Accessories) and press Enter. Once the process finishes, PulseAudio should be installed and you can check to see if your Skype audio is working now.

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Linux Mint 16 x64 нет звука в skype

Всем привет! Поставил минт 16, звук в системе есть, оповещания, музыка, видео и т.д. в скайпе звука нет совсем, меня слышат а я нет, подскажите что можно подправить. В настройках скайпа в устройствах попробовал уже все устройства, звук так и не появился.

sound test service в скайпе

а можно подробней плиз

Ну скайп открой, первый в списке контактов, чтобы проверить не связано ли отсутствие звука с проблемами на другой стороне. Раз всё равно с чего начинать, почему не с этого? Типа проверка. Запишет от тебя звук и тебе же его воспроизведёт. Если всё ОК, то проблемы у того с кем ты разговаривать пытаешься. Это самое простое с чего можно начать.

да нет, я не слышу sound test service, там в настройках скайпа есть проверка звука, так там тоже все глухо.

Значит полезай в настройки. В BSD это примерно так: значок статуса -ПКМ- настройки- вкладка звук- попробуй поменять источники звука/микрофона с дефолтного на другой (если в списке есть). У меня, к примеру, смена была с дефолта на OSS. Потом согласись с изменениями, и попробуй Test Sound снова.

Это пробовал первым делом, у меня в списке устройств с десяток, все молчат, может OSS попробовать поставить, как думаете?

в консоли пиши alsamixer. Параметр auto-mut ставишь на disabled. Мне когда-то это на Ubuntu помогло.

Все на конец то проблему решил. Чертов скайп, там в настройках есть 2 параметра (колонки и звонок), так оба поставил в sysdefault, оно зависло, убил все процессы скайпа и снова запустивши все заработало, вот что за бред, где логика?

СПС всем кто помогал

Если будет интерес, попробуй OSS. Поверь, если на Фре запустилась, то и на Лине и подавно =))

OSS старье, он вроде только однопотоковый, не знаю как сейчас, может и ошибаюсь. Эсли будут еще проблемы то попробую OSS.

Ну чтоб соседа услышать без помех и такого набора достаточно))))

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Полтергейтс со звуком в Skype

Проблема следующая. Каждый раз при включении ноутбука или выводе его из спящего режима мне надо делать sudo alsa force-reload, чтобы на skype появился звук. Однако этого недостаточно. Звук на нем работает буквально через раз. Запускаю тестовый звонок, тупо идет отсчет, но звука нет (зато после того, как я его заканчиваю, проигрывается звук окончания разговора!!). Кто-нибудь в курсе, как это решается?

Вывод идет через alsa, pulseaudio удален. В Skype в настройках самопроизвольно появляются везде то Default device, то конкретная карта.

Система: Linux crunchbang 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-686-pae #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 08:21:41 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

Skype: 4.0.0.8, статическая сборка.

$ dmesg|tail
[14539.454692] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[14539.454831] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:01.1: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[14539.454895] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:01.1: setting latency timer to 64
[14539.504425] HDMI status: Codec=0 Pin=3 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0
[14539.504806] input: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/sound/card0/input18
[14539.509514] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[14540.249540] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/input/input19
[14540.253222] input: HDA ATI SB Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input20
[14540.253422] input: HDA ATI SB Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input21
[14547.518707] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.

И еще одна небольшая проблема: подключаю колонки, а вывод музыки все равно идет через динамики ноутбука.

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Skype linux no sound